No question for Johnny Hallyday that his son uses his official surname… And the reason is simple!
After the famous documentary Johnny by Laeticia broadcast in December 2022 on M6, it is a new documentary on the Hallyday family, produced by Paul Belmondo, which will be unveiled on April 3 on the channel Canal+ Docs. But this time it is not the owner who will be in the spotlight, but his only son, David Hallyday. The magazine Gala has also unveiled key moments of this program exclusively. We learn in particular that the son of Johnny Hallyday and Sylvie Vartan wanted to make himself known at the start of his musical career under the name of David Smet. What did not please the rocker: “He said to me, ‘You can’t. I am Johnny Hallyday, you have to call yourself David Hallyday !’“explains David in the Canal+ documentary. The 56-year-old singer also mentioned the scrapbook blood for blood which he composed in 1999 for his famous father: “It was this project that made[ils] arrived[nt] to reconnect, to spend real intimate moments together, not with fifteen people who had other interests around“. Not without emotion, David Hallyday assured that his father was “a little different… alone“.
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Her relationship with her stepfather Tony Scotti
In this documentary, David Hallyday not only evokes his illustrious father, he also pays tribute to his stepfather Tony Scottiwho has been married to his mother, Sylvie Vartan, since 1984.”When I started out, apart from my family, a lot of people supported me than I was. not good enough for a career” he explained before going on to say: “It’s important to pay tribute to the people who have helped you and who love you. From the age of 17, I was writing songs for a publishing house, without thinking of singing one day. Tony encouraged me to do it. Without that, I would have continued in music, but not necessarily performing on stage.”. A major support therefore for David who thus had the courage to start. As for Sylvie Vartan and her grandmother, he says they have “very quickly understood that music was my home, not a passion, but a vocation“.